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Joiner was born in Monrovia, California, and attended Catholic High School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He attended Louisiana State University, where he played college football for the LSU Tigers. Joiner died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on March 24, 2023, at the age of 62. [2]
He served as the attorney general of Louisiana from 1992 to 2004. He unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2003. [1] Ieyoub's father, Philip, emigrated from Lebanon to Lake Charles, Louisiana, and his mother, Virginia, was a first-generation Lebanese American. [2] Ieyoub was inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in 2016. [3]
Mary Estus Jones Webb (May 14, 1924 – September 16, 1995) became Mayor-President of Baton Rouge in 1955 on the death of her husband, Jesse L. Webb Jr. in a plane crash. She was the first woman to serve as Mayor-President of Baton Rouge.
[5] [4] At the 2016 Louisiana Senior Games, she completed the 50-meter sprint in 19.07 and biked in the 5K cycling race. [ 8 ] At the 2017 National Senior Games, she won the women's 100+ 100-meter sprint, with a record time of 36.62 seconds, and finished the 50-meter sprint in 18.31 seconds. [ 9 ]
He graduated in 1963 from Holy Savior Menard Central High School, a Roman Catholic-institution in Alexandria and in 1967 from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He served in the United States Marine Corps , first as a drill sergeant [ 1 ] and rose to the rank of lieutenant during the Vietnam War era and was a member of the Veterans of ...
William P. "Buckskin Bill" Black (1929 – January 10, 2018) was a Louisiana children's television personality and, later, school board member. [1] [2] He hosted what at the time were the longest-running children's television programs in the United States, Storyland and The Buckskin Bill Show, on Baton Rouge's WAFB-TV.
Lawsuit against city of Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge Police Department and officers [3] settled for $4.5 million [4] On July 5, 2016, Alton Sterling , a 37-year-old black man, was shot and killed by two Baton Rouge Police Department officers, Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake II, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana .
He attended Louisiana State University (LSU) where he played both football and baseball for the Tigers. [2] His career covered a wide array of involvement in athletics for over 70 years from starting his career as a football and baseball coach at his alma mater, Catholic High School in Baton Rouge, to a football assistants' job at LSU. Didier ...